The Internet’s Trust Problem: BGP Hijacking, RPKI, and the Role of Blackwell-Scale Compute

The article discusses the trust problem in the internet's routing system, focusing on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking. It explains how the internet is a federation of independent Autonomous Systems (AS) connected by BGP, which lacks inherent identity verification and operates on trust by default. This flaw allows rogue or misconfigured networks to announce more attractive routes, diverting traffic to various malicious outcomes such as blackholing, man-in-the-middle attacks, and impersonation. The article suggests that the introduction of NVIDIA's Blackwell-Scale Compute (GB200 NVL72) changes the stakes, as attackers can now do more with the hijacked traffic.